Word: angela
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to the usual suspects, a pair of rookies scored for the first time in their careers. Freshman defenseman Jamie Hagerman had a goal and two assists, and freshman winger Tracy Catlin scored a goal. Sophomore defenseman Angela Ruggiero added two helpers while juniors Kiirsten Suurkask and Jamie Notman each contributed an assist...
...McCourt writes with the same mix of humor and sadness that sustained him through Angela's Ashes, but this time a sharper edge of anger and resentment accompany his stories. The maturing McCourt loses the playfulness and innocence of childhood, replacing it with his father's fondness for drink, an acute social awareness, and a searing sense of ambition...
...serves as a reminder, in this age of cynicism, that there is still an American dream. McCourt, at age 66 and after finding the strength to write from the voices of three African-American writers, ultimately achieves that dream with the publication of Angela's Ashes. But the undercurrents of anger and resentment that reverberate through the book show us the raw underbelly of that dream: the humiliation, the loneliness, the despair and the jealousy. McCourt's second novel does not exist as an extension of his first book, devoid of any meaning. Rather, it shows us that the American...
...these performers, however, manage to make their roles their own. Except Claire Danes, who in the title role is nothing short of a great detriment to the film. Even if the viewer does not recognize her as Angela from "My So-Called Life" or Juliet from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, her voice is absolutely grating. Princess Mononoke is a poor translation of Mononoke Hime, which more literally means "Spirit/Monster/Ghost Princess"--there is nothing remotely spiritual, monstrous or ghostly about Danes' Princess Mononoke. While her behavior and lines present Princess Mononoke as a tough, dangerous, furious woman, she sounds...
Harvard, however, is prepared to squelch the Bears' championship hopes this weekend. Led by sophomore Erin Denniston, who has gained Ivy League Player of the Week honors twice this season, sophomores Katherine Hart and Angela Lutich, and co-captain Linda Jellison, the Crimson is ready to right the wrongs of last year's injury-plagued season...